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Advice and information on key aspects of the UK’s counter-terrorism legislation and how it may affect charities and their work.
How charity trustees can protect their assets and resources by choosing the right type of insurance.
Regulations giving authority for total return investment by charities.
About the Charity Commission's public benefit guidance.
Find out what happens when the Charity Commission opens an inquiry into a charity.
This guidance explains what charity trustees need to know when thinking about taking or defending legal action generally.
How to ask the Official Custodian for Charities to hold the title to your charity's land on your behalf.
Privacy notice about how we process your data when you contact the Charity Commission as a whistleblower.
This guide gives some examples of types of personal benefit.
Regulations prescribing the information to be included in charities’ annual returns from 1 January 2025 onwards.
How trustees, staff and volunteers can protect their charity from abuse by those encouraging extremism, terrorism or illegal activity.
Guidance for trustees of permanently endowed charities considering adopting a total return approach to investing the charity's funds.
Find out how charity service users can help to develop the charity's services by being trustees.
Key issues and questions for charities to consider based on insights from our casework into campaigning and political activity during previous election periods.
Guidance for councillors and council officers of a local authority which is a trustee of a charity.
How charity trustees can be liable for the actions of employees, volunteers and others who act for the charity.
How your charity can deliver public services on behalf of organisations like local authorities, the NHS or government departments.
Information on the incorporation of charity trustees, what types of charity can apply and what happens after incorporation.
Guidance for charity trustees on when to report incidents involving the charity's partners as a serious incident.
If your company isn’t a charity you need Charity Commission permission to use the words ‘charity’, ‘charity’s’, ‘charities’ or ‘charitable’ (known as sensitive words) in its name.
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